Summary

Air Engines is a comprehensively illustrated, self-contained and readable account of the evolution of the air engine, of the many variants of the basic principle, of the methods available for design, and of current and future applications. This wide-ranging treatment spans the entire subject from previously undisclosed technical details of Robert Stirling's invention of 1816 through to engines currently under development. The treatment of the regenerator is the most straightforward yet published, allowing wire diameter and mesh number for best operation to be read from tables and charts.